Bosnian court denies Turkish extradition request for alleged Gülen follower

A Bosnian court has dismissed a request for extradition to Turkey of a Turkish national, one among several wanted for alleged links to the...

Civil servant purged by Turkish gov’t abducted in Ankara, says parent

Orçun Şenyücel, a former public employee who was dismissed from his job at the Competition Authority in 2016, has been abducted by an unknown...

Turkish gov’t prosecutes 208 people over social media posts in a week

The Turkish government has investigated 710 social media accounts and taken legal action against 208 users over the last week, the Turkish Interior Ministry...

Survey shows 38 percent of children live in extreme poverty across Turkey

Thirty-eight percent of children in Turkey lived in households suffering from severe material deprivation in 2016, an increase of 1,6 percent over the previous...

COMMENTARY — Europe braces itself for Erdoğan’s new push for the Turkish diaspora

By Abdullah Bozkurt Ahead of both president and parliamentary elections on June 24, 2018, Turkey’s Islamist rulers led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and their...

Pro-Erdoğan columnist: More journalists to face investigation in Turkey

Journalist Cem Küçük, a staunch supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said on Monday that new operations targeting journalists were underway. Küçük wrote in...

Turkish gov’t detains 532 people in one week over alleged Gülen links

A total of 532 people have been detained in the past week due to alleged links to the faith-based Gülen movement, the Turkish Interior...

Turks in South Africa fear abduction by Erdoğan gov’t over alleged Gülen links

“Yesterday we were sitting together, today they call us terrorists. Immediately overnight they changed,” said an obviously distressed Turkish national during an interview with...

Turkish courts sentence 604 military personnel to prison over alleged coup involvement in Ankara

More than 600 military members who were convicted in Turkey's capital of Ankara of involvement in a controversial coup attempt on July 15, 2016...

Abducted Turkish citizen subjected to heavy torture at Ankara Organized Crime Bureau

Ümit Horzum,  a Turkish citizen who was abducted from his car in Ankara on December 6, 2017 and handed over to the Ankara police last...

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